This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse. '...Horrors were flowers then ...

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.

'...Horrors were flowers then the bright red bougainvilla'.

The above lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's Dream' depict the executioner's